Tuft

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.

2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. Under a tuft of shade. Milton. Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. Keble.

3. A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them. [Cant, Eng.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. T. Hughes.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To separate into tufts.

2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. Thomson.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.